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Withering Heights
by Alex Andy Phuong

Wuthering Heights has stood the test of time as one of the greatest love stories ever written.
Sometimes readers confuse the titular word "Wuthering" with the vocabulary term "Withering."
(Readers must remember that names can be deceiving.)
It is also interesting whenever names that people have are also real English words (like "Quick").
During the famous balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet, the leading lady wonders why names are a big deal
Sometimes, names are not a big deal.
And sometimes love falls apart because of physical attraction rather than mutual love and respect.
Unfortunately, sometimes houses do wither away literally and metaphorically when people living in houses fall in love (and then forget to clean up their passions).
Never fall in love (but the heart does what it does while the brain thinks about what somebody would do next)!